Argentina’s ambassador to the United States, Hector Timerman, will become the new foreign minister, replacing Jorge Taiana, who resigned Friday, the government said.
Here are some observations four days after Tuesday’s massive 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti’s capital:
Rescue workers struggled to clear rubble and bodies Wednesday from the streets of Haiti’s “flattened” capital, where a government official said the death toll from Tuesday’s 7.0-magnitude earthquake may exceed 100,000.
Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier’s return to Haiti has surprised many and pushed at least one person to seek criminal charges against the former ruler.
Venezuela will name a government representative to the board of opposition broadcaster Globovision, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said in speech Tuesday.
Haitian officials have postponed a runoff election, originally scheduled for January 16, to decide the troubled nation’s next president.
The death toll from Tropical Storm Agatha is growing, with 123 reported killed in Guatemala, 17 in Honduras and nine in El Salvador.
Officials in Petionville, Haiti, on Saturday prepared to move the first people out of a ballooning tent city — one of many erected in the wake of the 7.0-magnitude quake that devastated the country in January — and into a displacement camp as the rainy season gets under way.
Paul Schaefer, a former Nazi who fled Germany in 1961 and founded a cult-like commune in Chile, died Saturday in a prison hospital.
Has Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, been lost to the drug cartels?
The permanent council of the Organization of American States has approved a resolution asking troops to withdraw from the disputed border area between Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
Mexican authorities are tightening the noose around the drug cartel cell allegedly responsible for the killing of a U.S. immigration agent this month.
Through the afternoon downpour a horse plods along a muddy mountain path. I can smell him almost before he rounds the bend. He’s weighed down with more than 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of freshly-picked marijuana.
A decision on whether bail would be granted for 10 American missionaries detained in Haiti may have been delayed Monday because of quake-related electrical problems at the courthouse.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and foreign ministers from more than a dozen countries will start laying out the groundwork for rebuilding Haiti on Monday, nearly two weeks after a devastating earthquake.
A tropical depression in southwestern Gulf of Mexico strengthened into a tropical storm Monday morning, forecasters said.
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